Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1960
Lives and works in New York City
Education: Massachusetts College of Art, 1980-84, BFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008 "Jack Pierson," Xavier Hufkens, Bruselles, June 19 – July 26, 2008
"Jack Pierson," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, March 11 – May 18, 2008
2007 "Jack Pierson," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 14 – May 19, 2007
"Jack Pierson: Self Portraits," Sabine Knust, Münich, Germany, November 29,
2006 – January 27, 2007
2006 "Jack Pierson: The Golden Hour," Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany, December
1, 2006 – March 3, 2007
"Jack Pierson," Centre D'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain, December 15,
2006 -
"Jack Pierson: Recent Works," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, June
29 – July 29, 2006
"Jack Pierson: Malancholia Passing into Madness," Cheim & Read, New York,
New York, March 30 – May6, 2006
2005 "Jack Pierson: Early Works," Daniel Reich Gallery in co-operation
with Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, New York, December 15, 2005 –
January 28, 2006; travels to Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany,
September 30 – November 13, 2006
"Jack Pierson: Self Portraits," Alison Jacques Gallery, London, United Kingdom,
October 20 – November 19, 2005
"Jack Pierson," Javier Lopez Gallery, Madrid, Spain, June - July
2004 "Jack Pierson," Alison Jacques Gallery, London, United Kingdom, September 10
– October 9, 2004
"Self-Portrait," Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX, June 12 – July 17
"Self-Portrait," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 – July 3
2003 "Jack Pierson: One Adapts," Cheim & Read, New York, NY, November 20, 2003 - January 3, 2004
"Jack Pierson," Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany, October 30 - December 20
"Jack Pierson," Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden, August 28-
September 24
"Jack Pierson: Why?," University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, September 9-October 15
2002 "Jack Pierson," Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX, November 7 - December 7
"Jack Pierson," Galerie Aurel Schibler, Cologne, Germany, September 13 - October 19
"Jack Pierson: regrets," Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, March 15 - June 30
"Jack Pierson," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, January 26 - March 16
2001 "Jack Pierson," glenn horowitz bookseller, East Hampton, NY
August 18 - September 25
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 14 - May 19
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, March 30 - April 21
Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, February 2 - March 17
Photology, Milan, Italy, February 2 - March 31
2000 Cheim & Read, New York, NY, November 1, 2000 - January 6, 2001
Robert Pearre Fine Art, Tucson, AZ, January 12 - February 5
"La Vie," galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France, January 15 – February
19
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, September 1 - October 31
"Signs of the Times," realARTways, Hartford, CT
1999 Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, May 18 - August 4
Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Art Association, Provincetown, MA, August
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, August
Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany, October 1 - November 14
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, November 19 - December 31
Cheim & Read, New York, NY, March 31 - April 30
Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
1998 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany, November 11- January 23
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, October 17 - November 28
American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY, April 18 - May 2
1996 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Nzet Projekt, Gent, Belgium
White Cube, London, England
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, France
Galleria Dante, Croatia
Modulo Centro Difuso de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
1995 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Theoretical Events, Naples, Italy
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Galleri Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Edward Hopper and Jack Pierson: American Dreaming," Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY, project room
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1993 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
White Columns, New York, NY
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY
Richard Kuhlenschmidt, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Simon Watson, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 "The Sum of its Parts," Cheim & Read, New York, NY, January 2008
2007 "Words Fail Me," Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, September 16
– January 20, 2008
"I Am As You Will Be," Cheim & Read, New York, NY, September 20 – November 3,
2007
"The Recognitions," curated by David Salle, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY,
June 30 – July 18, 2007
"Final exhibition at 4 Clifford Street," Alison Jacques Gallery, London, United
Kingdom, January 12 – January 27, 2007
"Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Foundation," Centro de Artes Visuais Coimbra,
Portugal, June 30 – September 9, 2007
2006 "Tom Burr / Jack Pierson," Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany, December 1, 2006 –
January 2007
"25' x 25'," curated by Matthew Higgs and Amie Scally, White Columns, New
York, at Cereal Art Project Room, Philadelphia, PA, November 17,
2006 – January 17, 2007
"Jack Pierson and Tom Burr," Neu Gallery, Berling, Germany, September 30 –
October
"The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960," Museum
Ludwig Köln, Germany, August 19 – November 12, 2006
"Until It Makes Sense," curated by James Brooks, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac,
Paris, France, June 29 – July 29, 2006
"Survivor," organized by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY,
March 11 – April 1, 2006
2005 "Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and
Contemporary Works on Paper," conceived by Barbaralee
Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY,
October 28 – January 14, 2006
"Romance (a novel)," curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Cristina Guerra
Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal, September 14 – October 15, 2005;
cat.
"A Thousand Words," Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, July 9 – August 27,
2005
"Getting Emotional," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts,
May 18 – September 5, 2005
"There Then," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, April 7 – May 14, 2005
"Collection 2," commissioned by Philippe Piguet, Foundation for Contemporary
Art, Collection of Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon, Château
d'Arenthon, France, March 17 – July 3, 2005
"Desenhos: A-Z," Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Colecção Madeira
Corporate Services, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, February 16
– April 3, 2005
"in limbo," under the direction of Dr. Gwen F. Chanzit, Victoria H. Myhren
Gallery, Denver, CO, January 13 – March 11, 2005
"There is No Such Thing as the Real World," curated by Nicolai Gerner-
Mathisen, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway, January 7 – February 13, 2005
"Contemporary Photography and the Garden: Deceits and Fantasies,"
organized by the American Federation of Arts, travels to The
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, January 20 –
April 17, 2005; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, May 22
– July 17, 2005; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, October 21, 2005 – January 2, 2006; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA,
January 14 – April 30, 2006
2004 "Never Never Landscape," curated by Kirsty Bell, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany, September 10 – October 16
"I am the Walrus," Cheim & Read, New York, NY, June 10 – July 30
"The Whitney Biennial," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY, March 10 - May 30, cat.
2003 "Inaugural Exhibition," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 - March 8
"Photography Portfolio: am fAR," curated by Jack Pierson, Cheim & Read,
New York, NY, September 10-October 11; travels to Regen Projects, June 4 – July 3, 2004
"Simple Marks," Cheim & Read, New York, NY, July 23 - August 29
"Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art," Neue Galerie Graz und
Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria, April 26 - August 24
"Imaging the Abstract," Feigen Contemporary, New York, April 10 – May 24
"Special Dedicace," Musee Departmental D'Art Contemperain de
Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France, March 22 - August 31
"Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism," University Art Museum,
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, March 18 – May 11; University Galleries, Normal, IL, September 9 - October 19; Richard Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN; The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, cat.
"Abstraction in Photography," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, February 6 – March 22
2002 "Copy," Roth Horowitz, New York, May 10 - June 22
"Electric Dreams," The Barbican, London, England, July 11 - August 26
2001 "Drawings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, May 26 - July 21
"The Magic Hour," Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria, September 23 - November 11
"Brave New World," Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico, December 10, 2001 - January 31, 2002
"Let's Entertain," co-produced by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris; travels to Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, September 13 –
November 18, cat.
"Liquid Properties," Cheim & Read, New York, July 6 - August 3
"Happiness," Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal, May - June
"Spiritual America," Audiello Fine Art, New York, May 11 - June 16
"Before They Became Who They Are," curated by Norman Dubrow,
Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, January 13-February 10
2000 "00," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, cat.
"On Language," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, April 29 – June 10,
2000
Jack Hanley Gallery, January 6 - February 4
"Quotidiana: The continuity of the everyday in 20th Century Art,"
Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy, February 4 -May 21
1999 "The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900 - 2000," Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY, September 23, 1999 - February 27,
2000
"Drawing," Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 5 - July 2
"On Language," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, April 29 - June 10
"Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 99," curated by Jessica Morgan,
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
"Hindsight: Works from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Two by Two for AIDS," Dallas, TX
"Insight-Out," Kunstraum Innsbruck; travels to Kunsthaus Hamburg; travels
to Kunsthaus Baselland, Germany
"Free Coke," Greene Naftali, New York, NY
"Views from the Edge of the World," Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
"Collectors Collect Contemporary," The Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston, MA, March 31 - May 28
1998 "Now and Forever Part I," Pat Hearn Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, June 25 - July 31
"Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego, June 27 - September 5
"Emotions & Relations: Contemporary American Photography," Hamburg Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, March 27 - June 1
"The Sound of One Hand," curated by Collier Schorr, Apex Art, New York,
NY, March 19 – April 18
"View IV," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, May 15 – June 27
"Bathroom," curated by Wayne Kostenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New
York, NY
"Erotic Sublime," Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1996 "More than Real," Caserta, Italy
"Traffic," CAPC, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
"Black and Blue," Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland
"Colorealism: Photography enters the third Millenium," Photology
"Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life," Tokyo, Japan
"Exposure," Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
"Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum
of American Art," organized by David Ross and Eugenie Tsai,
National Gallery, Athens, Greece, June 10 - September 30; travels to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain, December 18 –
April 6, 1997; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, June - September 1997, cat.
"Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975 - 96,"
curated by Ann Goldstein, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA,
'Los Angeles, CA, September 28 - January 7
"Defining the Nineties: Consensus-making in New York, Miami, and
Los Angeles," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, February 24 –
April 6, cat.
1995 "Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson," Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Pat Hearn Gallery, A Selected Survey, 1983 - 1995," Pat Hearn Gallery,
New York, NY
"Guaranteed Personalities," Stockholm, Sweden
"Boston School," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
"1995 Yamantaka Donation: An Exhibition of Photographs to Benefit Tibet House," curated by Diego Cortez, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
"The Moderns," Feature, New York, NY
"Hetrick-Martin Institute Benefit," Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
"1995 Whitney Biennial," curated by Klaus Kertess, The Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, NY
"Disneyland After Dark," Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
"Borealis 7 Desire," The Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland
"Close to Life," 3. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen, Germany
1994 "Small Paintings," Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
"In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography," Margo Leavin Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
"Sculpture," Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, Geoffrey Young Gallery,
Great Barrington, MA
"Abstract Works on Paper," Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
"Making Waves," Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
Provincetown, MA
"GIFT," The InterArt Center, New York, NY
"A Garden," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
"Psycho-pathology of Everyday Life," Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
"Passing Through," Galerie Walcheturm," Zurich, Switzerland
1993 "Picturing Ritual," The Center for Photography, Woodstock; Neuberger
Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
"Drawing the Line Against AIDS," Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York,
NY
"Summer Reading," Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
"Works on Paper," Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Whitney Biennial in Seoul," National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Seoul, Korea
"Snap!," Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY
"Irony & Ecstasy," curated by Klaus Ottman, Salama-Caro Gallery, London,
England
"Tema AIDS," curated by Kim Levin and Svien Christensen, Henie-Niels
Foundation, Hovikkoden, Norway; travels to Denmark and Sweden
"Stoned (HighLow)," curated by Veralyn Behenna and Rick Pirro, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Urban Analysis," curated by Maynard Monrow, Barbara Braathen Gallery,
New York, NY
"Nobuyoshi Araki, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Jack Pierson," Luhring
Augustine, New York, NY
"1993 Whitney Biennial," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY
"Simply Made in America," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
1992 "The Language of Flowers," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
"Developing Language," curated by Klaus Kertess, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
"The Anti-Masculine," curated by Bill Arning, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"White Columns Update 1992," White Columns, New York, NY
"True Stories," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
"Identities," Forum Stadtpark, Graz
"Hollywood, Hollywood: Identity Under the Guise of Celebrity,"
curated by Fred Fehlau, Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena, CA
"Drawings," Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Healing," Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"How It Is," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Koln, Germany
"Presenting Rearwards," curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Situations," curated by Nayland Blake, New Langton Arts, San Francisco,
CA
"Drawings," Lorence-Monk, New York, NY
"Someone or Somebody," Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Something Pithier and More Psychological," Simon Watson, New York, NY
"From Desire...," curated by Nan Goldin, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St.
Lawrence University, Canton, NY
"Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson," York University,
Toronto, Canada
"Selections 51," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1990 "Blood Remembering," Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, Staten Island, NY
"eros/thanatos," Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
1993 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1992 Art Matters, New York, NY